Many students found that actively participating in direct discussion sessions of speaking class is hard. There are various problems they felt whenever wanted to speak the class. Thus, this study aimed discover what major encountered by a which cause low participation during discussion. This uses survey research and questionnaire as instrument. The subjects were 34 English Education Department 5...

This study aimed to investigate the beliefs of English as foreign language (EFL) learners about speaking in English and being a good speaker of English through metaphor analysis. A phenomenological approach was adopted and 60 EFL learners completed a questionnaire with demographic questions and two prompts focusing on the characteristics of a good English speaker (i.e., “Speaking English is lik...

This study documented baseline neurocognitive performance of 23,815 athletes on the Immediate Post-Concussion Assessment and Cognitive Testing (ImPACT) test. Specifically, 9,733 Hispanic, Spanish-speaking athletes who completed the ImPACT test in English and 2,087 Hispanic, Spanish-speaking athletes who completed the test in Spanish were compared with 11,955 English-speaking athletes who comple...

The English language is considered the lingua franca among speakers of different languages and it predominantly a major subject in world education system. Communication anxiety manipulates dominant role restricting communication second learners (ESL). ESL decline to converse since many scholars experience diverse forms. main objective study was investigate whether working groups effective demot...

One of the most important skills to acquire in learning a foreign language is speaking. It however, viewed as one difficult. This study involved observation non-English major students department Nanjing Tech University. Its aim was assess critically factors that affect speaking performances Chinese EFL Learners, find out their motivational levels and explore ways improve proficiency. Two survey...

Over the last few years, role of computers has become a controversial issue in language learning. This study was designed to examine the impact of computer anxiety and computer self-efficacy on the speaking section of the TOEFL iBT test taken by Intermediate EFL learners. The researchers intended to find out, which var- iable i.e. computer anxiety and/or self-efficacy would result in better per...

Recently, Willingness to Communicate (WTC) has been explored and proposed be one of the key concepts for identifying when decides initiate communication in target language. The attention, nonetheless, concentrated on how WTC interacts with other learners’ variables. This study, hand, intends offer empirical evidence direct roles affective variables (self-confidence, anxiety, motivation, grit) (...

Role-plays provide students with the opportunity to demonstrate how to use English in real life situations and make them focus more on communication than on grammar. Oral presentations like conversations are a great way for students to practice their English skills. Therefore, this paper makes an attempt to investigate whether teaching conversation through role play affects the students’ speaki...